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Old 09-18-2005, 12:04 PM   #1
horatiub
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Debian SID problem


I just installed SID yesterday thru the testing netinst CD, and I'm having a problem installing the desktop environment. It gives me an error that I need the evolution package, and when I go ahead and try to install this one,it tells me that I'm missing libsoup2.2-7, but which is not avaialable for install.
Any ideas what should I do?
 
Old 09-18-2005, 01:04 PM   #2
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Re: Debian SID problem

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Originally posted by horatiub
I just installed SID yesterday thru the testing netinst CD, and I'm having a problem installing the desktop environment. It gives me an error that I need the evolution package, and when I go ahead and try to install this one,it tells me that I'm missing libsoup2.2-7, but which is not avaialable for install.
Any ideas what should I do?
Try putting a line for testing in your /etc/apt/sources.list then update to refresh the package caches then try the install. You may want to remove the line after you are done installing.

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>$ apt-cache policy libsoup2.2-7
libsoup2.2-7:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.2.3-2
  Version table:
     2.2.3-2 0
        990 http://amd64.debian.net testing/main Packages
 
Old 09-18-2005, 02:07 PM   #3
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should I use the deb-src or just deb for testing?
 
Old 09-18-2005, 03:04 PM   #4
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should I use the deb-src or just deb for testing?
Just the deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free should work nicely then update and try to install.
 
Old 09-18-2005, 03:23 PM   #5
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thank you, I will prolly switch all of them to testing, and stick around on testing for a while, too many problems I had with SID. Gnome freezes, etc...
 
Old 09-18-2005, 03:48 PM   #6
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Just the thread I was looking for. Great job, HappyTux.
 
  


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